Preindustrial Public HealthApr 10, 2024

⛔ 🧵 Claire Weeda + G Geltner’s #OpenAccess article explores how #galenic understandings of health for #mobile groups prioritised movement/ flow of air, water, + masses. These were (and are) legitimate and overlooked community health regimes. #GPHW24

https://academic.oup.com/jhmas/article/76/2/123/6146164#234821736

Underground and Over the Sea: More Community Prophylactics in Europe, 1100-1600

Abstract. Public health historians have repeatedly shown that the theory, policy, and practice of group prophylactics far predate their alleged birth in in

OUP Academic
Preindustrial Public HealthApr 10, 2024
2/🧵 Mines have always been incubators of innovation, including in #preventative #healthcare. Think masks, helmets, canaries in the coal mine… but wait! How many of these developed before #industrialisation? #GPHW24
Preindustrial Public HealthApr 8, 2024
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#Premodern societies are rich with evidence showing various paradigms for mitigating, preventing, + managing population-level #publichealth. We remind #GPHW24, while celebrating + focusing on modern and global challenges, to remember the #historians of #publichealth for insight.
Preindustrial Public HealthApr 8, 2024

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#healthscaping has come a long way. This year Janna Coomans,
Léa Hermenault, Clair Weeda,
and Rogier van Kooten published an article covering the unequal effects of plague in 16th cent #Antwerp through a spatial-environmental lens.

https://academic.oup.com/shm/advance-article/doi/10.1093/shm/hkad090/7629070?login=false#443918058

#spatialhistory #GPHW24 #publichealth

Plague, Religion and Urban Space in Sixteenth-Century Antwerp

Summary. Antwerp’s response to the outbreak of plague in the 1570s offers new insights into the effects of epidemics on urban communities in relation to th

OUP Academic
Preindustrial Public HealthApr 8, 2024

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In 2012 Guy Geltner published “Public Health and the Pre-Modern City: A #ResearchAgenda", tackling the way the "#medieval" public health is viewed. He called on modern professionals to consider the history of public health in their work. #GPHW24

https://static1.squarespace.com/static/57442c654c2f85e97071b282/t/574ac37df699bbded7db533c/1464517503211/Public+Health+and+the+Pre-Modern+City.pdf

Preindustrial Public HealthApr 8, 2024

Full program of Global Public Health Week #GPHW24 out, starting today under the theme "𝐑𝐞𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐏𝐮𝐛𝐥𝐢𝐜 𝐇𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐭𝐡 𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐠𝐦𝐬" #paradigms #publichealth, which we will tackle all week by highlighting our #Premodern #Healthscaping research projects. 1/

https://www.wfpha.org/global-public-health-week/

Global Public Health Week | WFPHA

Preindustrial Public HealthApr 3, 2024
Hasan is prof of history at University of Delhi (New Delhi). His work covers #literaryculture, #gender relations, #state formation, and #publicsphere in early modern #SouthAsia. He currently explores #publichealth practices of itinerant merchants + soldiers, with
@mukhtarspeaks
#healthscaping #GPHW24